Wisconsin vs. New Mexico State 9/17/22

[AKCheesehead]

Starting a thread for thoughts on the game today.

[RedStickBrew]

Mertz has had a couple off throws. Would be nice to see him get in a rhythm. 

Wedig looks massive out there

[LouisEly]

If Mertz's pass isn't tipped it's likely 42-0 at half.

[RedStickBrew]

8 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

If Mertz's pass isn't tipped it's likely 42-0 at half.

Sure did look that way. He has made some better throws after those first couple series

[DuWayne Steurer]

badgers have done everything they needed to do today.

nothing more or less. 

 

[Jim French Stepstool]

Probably the biggest plus personnel-wise was to get several snaps for Myles Burkett. Regardless of the competition (which was obviously weak) it was impressive for his first extended playing time. Was given a little bit of everything, even a bootleg where he showed nice moxie throwing the ball in the turf when there was nothing there. Threw with confidence & looked like he belonged. I'm sure there would be ugly moments if he had to take the helm in a conference game, but nice poise for a kid who was competing against Oak Creek & Racine Horlick at this time last year.

[CheezWizHed]

Yeah, Burkett looked natural out there. Hill didn't really. Big kid, but looked really stiff. 

I did think that Mertz looked good out there.  Yes, against a bad team, but after the first couple of drives, he looked very accurate - both the wide open throws and the contested throws (dropping passes in zones and up the seam).  Seems like PC would be wise to get a couple easy tosses early in the game to get Mertz going.  But his accuracy does look like it is miles ahead of this time last year.   Even his pick was a tipped ball in a tight window, so I'm not worried about that.

Big, big test coming with Ohio St though...